A difficult question for most housewives: what to cook for the festive table? After all, I want the dish to be not only tasty and beautiful, but also new, not beaten. The best recipes for such treats are collected below.
The choice of unusual snacks on the festive table is huge. Among all the existing recipes, every culinary specialist will find the ideal one for himself.
Pancake bags with chicken and mushrooms
Ingredients:
- pancakes - 10 pcs. ready;
- chicken fillet - 300 - 350 g;
- peeled mushrooms - 0.2 kg;
- grated cheese - a glass;
- sour cream / classic mayonnaise - to taste;
- butter;
- salt, spices and smoked cheese braid for tying pouches.
Cooking algorithm:
- Cut the onions and mushrooms into smaller pieces, fry them in butter.
- Boil the meat, cut into small pieces. Send to fry.
- Add sour cream/mayonnaise to the pan. Salt, add spices. Soak for a couple of minutes.
- Rub the cheese.
- Spread the stuffing from the pan over the pancakes. Sprinkle with grated cheese on top.
- Tie the delicious pouches with strips of smoked cheese.
Before serving, warm the snack in the microwave.
"Mushrooms"
Ingredients:
- boiled eggs - 3 pcs.;
- cheese and ham - 100 - 150 g each;
- cherry - 12 - 14 pcs.;
- fresh cucumbers - 2 - 3 pcs.;
- fresh herbs - 1 bunch;
- homemade mayonnaise and salt.
Cooking:
- Grind eggs, cheese, ham with a grater. Salt as needed.
- Add mayonnaise, mix everything.
- Blind from the mass of the legs of "mushrooms". Set each on a circle of fresh cucumber and put the blanks on a plate covered with chopped herbs.
- Make hats from cherry tomatoes and drops of mayonnaise.
Refrigerate and serve to guests.
Roll "Crab"
Ingredients:
- thin pita bread - 2 pcs.;
- boiled eggs - 3 pcs.;
- processed and hard cheese - 150 g each;
- garlic - 5 teeth;
- greens - 1 bunch;
- mayonnaise, salt.
Cooking:
- Boiled eggs, two types of cheese and finely rub the garlic. Mix with mayonnaise and chopped herbs. Salt at will.
- Divide the resulting filling into two portions.
- Spread two pita breads with it in turn. Lay them on top of each other and roll up.
Cool the appetizer, covering it with a film, then cut into portioned pieces.
What salads to prepare for the holiday
From salad recipes for the holiday, it is better to choose those that do not have quickly spoiling and soaking ingredients. If an appetizer with crackers, then the latter are best served separately with the dish.
With meat and crackers
Ingredients:
- any boiled meat - half a kilo;
- Chinese cabbage - half a kilo;
- cucumbers (fresh) - 4 pcs.;
- peeled champignons - half a kilo;
- dry garlic and yesterday's white bread - for crackers;
- oil;
- lettuce leaves;
- mayonnaise sauce and salt.
Cooking:
- Rinse the lettuce leaves and lay them on a beautiful dish.
- In a separate bowl, send boiled meat cut into thick strips. Chicken and pork are best suited for such an appetizer.
- Send thinly chopped cabbage to the meat.
- Finely chop the mushrooms and fry them in oil until light brown.
- Then, on the remaining fat, lightly brown the diced yesterday's bread. Sprinkle with dry garlic as you go.
- Cut fresh cucumbers into cubes.
- Mix all prepared products. Salt. Fill with sauce.
Put them on a plate with lettuce leaves.
"Anthill"
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 250 - 280 g;
- tomato - 1 pc.;
- cucumber - 1 pc.;
- raw potatoes - 2 pcs.;
- garlic - optional;
- bow arrows - 3 - 4 feathers;
- hard cheese - 50 - 70 g;
- salt, mayonnaise sauce;
- quality vegetable oil.
Action algorithm:
- Boil the chicken until fully cooked. Cool it directly in the broth for greater juiciness of the meat. Cut into small arbitrary pieces.
- Mix the chicken with slices of tomato, grated cheese and chopped cucumber in the same way. Season everything with salted sauce mixed with crushed garlic.
- Put the composition on a flat plate with a slide.
- Cut the potatoes into very thin long strips. Fry the product in small portions in hot oil until golden brown and crispy.
- Cover a slide of lettuce with potato straws.
Complement the appetizer with finely chopped green onions.
"Rainbow"
Ingredients:
- hunting sausages - 250 - 300 g;
- red salad pepper - 1 pc. (large);
- fresh strong cucumber - 1 - 2 pcs.;
- canned corn grains - 1 tbsp.;
- red onion - 1 head;
- boiled eggs - 3 pcs.;
- mayonnaise sauce - ½ tbsp.;
- French mustard - 1 dessert spoon;
- salt and spices.
Cooking:
- Cut the sausages into slices.
- Cut all vegetables and eggs into cubes. Drain liquid from corn.
- Mix all.
- Dress the salad with a mixture of sauce, mustard, salt and spices.
Serve with rye toast.
Holiday Sandwiches: Recipes
To make sandwiches on the festive table tasty and crispy, they should be prepared just before serving. You can make the filling in advance, and put it on the bread before the guests arrive.
With crab sticks and dill
Ingredients:
- loaf - 1 fresh;
- cucumber - 1 pc.;
- dill - 5 - 6 branches;
- crab sticks - 1 medium pack;
- grated processed cheese - ½ tbsp.;
- butter - 20 g;
- mayonnaise sauce and salt.
Cooking:
- Very finely chop a fresh cucumber. Also chop the crab sticks.
- Add grated cheese to ingredients. To easily and quickly grind it, the product must first be frozen.
- Finely chop the dill. Pour into the base of the future salad.
- Fill with sauce. Salt to taste.
- Lightly toast thin slices of white bread in butter.
- Cover the pieces with buttercream.
Immediately serve sandwiches to the table.
With sprats
Ingredients:
- baguette - 6 pieces;
- sprats in oil - 6 pcs. (large);
- boiled egg - 1 pc.;
- fresh cucumber - 1 pc.;
- mayonnaise - 3 dessert spoons;
- lettuce leaves - 1 bunch;
- salt, spices - optional.
Cooking:
- Immediately cover a large flat plate with lettuce leaves.
- Cut each banana slice into halves. Dry them in a pan and grease with mayonnaise.
- Lay them on the salad and sprinkle with finely grated boiled egg.
- Add a fish to each serving.
- Cucumbers cut into thin slices and with the help of toothpicks fix them on the basis of sandwiches in the form of sails.
Serve an appetizer to the table, without pre-chilling.
Canape on skewers on the festive table
Appetizing canapes on skewers can be both a budget snack and a real delicacy. It all depends on the filling chosen for them.
With red fish and black caviar
Ingredients:
- white bread - ½ loaf;
- butter (softened) - ½ pack;
- slightly salted trout / salmon - 200 - 250 g;
- black caviar - 50 - 70 g;
- fresh parsley - to taste.
Cooking:
- Cut round pieces from white bread.
- Brush each with softened butter.
- Lay out portions of black caviar.
- Finely chop the fish and roll it into the shape of a sail. Attach to bread with skewers.
Garnish the finished canapes with fresh parsley.
With dried sausage
Ingredients:
- baguette - 200 g;
- dry-cured sausage (sliced) - 80 - 100 g;
- large fresh cucumber - 1 pc.;
- small tomatoes - 2 - 3 pcs.;
- toast cheese - 50 g;
- pitted olives - 10 pcs.
Cooking:
- Cut the baguette into portions and lightly dry in the oven.
- Decorate the cucumber with thin slices, tomatoes with plastics. Olives - halves.
- Put the toast cheese on the cooled croutons, one plate for each. You can pre-cover the bread with mayonnaise or soft curd cheese.
- Next, distribute the circles of tomatoes.
- On each skewer, first string a piece of olive, then a cucumber slice in waves and thin pieces of dry-cured sausage.
- Insert blanks into croutons.
Serve the resulting canapes on a beautiful plate.
New meat dishes
Meat dishes will become obligatory on the festive table. They should be served shortly after the start of the feast, when the guests had time to try the appetizers, hot.
Stuffed liver tubes
Ingredients:
- chicken liver - half a kilo;
- beef liver - 400 g;
- boiled eggs - 10 pcs.;
- raw eggs - 4 pcs.;
- carrots - 10 pcs.;
- milk - half a liter;
- flour - 1/3 tbsp.;
- sour cream - 5 dessert spoons;
- mayonnaise - 1/3 tbsp.;
- garlic - to taste;
- salt and spices.
Cooking:
- Kill two types of liver with a blender. Salt. Add spices.
- Pour well-beaten eggs and part of the milk into the liver mass.
- Enter flour. Beat again until the lumps disappear and dilute with the remaining milk.
- From the resulting mass, cook 25 - 30 pancakes.
- Fry onions with carrots. Salt. Add half of the sour cream.
- Mix the remaining sour cream with grated boiled eggs, mashed garlic and chopped cheese. Add salt and mayonnaise.
- Cover each pancake with cheese and egg mass and vegetable fry in turn.
Serve this unusual meat dish hot with any side dish.
Meat "balls"
Ingredients:
- mixed minced meat - half a kilo;
- yeast puff pastry - half a kilo;
- onion - 1 head;
- yolk - 1 pc.;
- garlic - to taste;
- milk - 2 dessert spoons;
- salt pepper.
Cooking:
- Mix minced meat with onion, garlic and re-pass through a meat grinder. Salt, add pepper.
- Carefully beat off the mass on a horizontal surface.
- Roll out the dough and cut into thin strips.
- Form “balls” of minced meat, cover them with strips of dough so that small gaps remain.
- Lubricate the blanks with a mixture of yolk and milk.
Bake the treat in the oven for 40-45 minutes at medium temperature until golden brown.
Original holiday garnishes
Instead of the usual rice and mashed potatoes for the holiday, you should cook something more interesting as a side dish. It is delicious to complement both of the dishes below with spicy sauces.
"Duchess"
Ingredients:
- raw potatoes - 1 kg;
- hard cheese - 50 - 80 g;
- chicken yolks - 2 pcs.;
- nutmeg - on the tip of a spoon;
- salt and pepper.
Cooking:
- Boil potatoes in salted water until tender.
- Drain all the water, add nutmeg, pepper, grated cheese, yolk (1 pc.). Mix everything well.
- On a baking sheet lined with parchment, use a pastry bag to squeeze out small roses.
- Lubricate the blanks with the remaining yolk.
- Bake in a very hot oven for 15-17 minutes.
Stuffed "Peking"
Ingredients:
- Chinese cabbage - 1 fork;
- cottage cheese of medium fat content - 300 - 350 g;
- high-quality gelatin - 10 g;
- drinking water - 60 ml;
- colored salad peppers - 150 g;
- fresh parsley - 10 g;
- garlic, salt, pepper.
Cooking:
- Pour gelatin with water and leave to swell.
- Finely chop parsley and garlic, mix with cottage cheese.
- Cut lettuce peppers into small cubes. Add to curd. Salt and pepper everything.
- Dissolve gelatin in the microwave, send to the filling.
- Divide the cabbage into leaves. Rinse and dry each.
- Take 2 leaves, fill them with stuffing and connect them together.
- Wrap each piece in cling film and refrigerate for a couple of hours.
Such an unusual side dish is served chilled with meat or fish.
Lenten menu
Lenten festive table can also be appetizing and tasty. True, the recipes in it will be simpler.
Casserole with potatoes and mushrooms
Ingredients:
- raw potatoes - 1.5 kg;
- peeled fresh mushrooms - half a kilo;
- onions - 2 heads;
- tomatoes - 3 pcs.;
- lean mayonnaise, vegetable oil and salt.
Cooking:
- Fully boil the peeled potatoes. Turn into a puree with the remaining water after cooking. Salt. You can add spices.
- Cut the onion with mushrooms randomly and fry in oil. Salt. Break with a blender.
- Pour 1/3 of the puree into the prepared glass dish. Cover with frying and another 1/3 puree.
- Next, lay out the thinly sliced tomatoes.
- Close everything with the remaining potatoes and lean mayonnaise.
Bake the dish at 170 degrees for about 40 minutes.
Lenten cabbage rolls
Ingredients:
- white cabbage - 1 head;
- white rice - ½ tbsp.;
- carrots and onions - 1 pc.;
- ketchup - 5 dessert spoons;
- tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- mushrooms - 1 tbsp.;
- oil, salt, pepper.
Cooking:
- Separate the cabbage into leaves. Each wash and cook in boiling water for 3 minutes until softened. Cut off thickenings from them.
- Rinse rice and cook for 7 minutes.
- Wild mushrooms are also pre-boiled. Mushrooms - just finely chopped.
- Remove the skin from the tomatoes, chop finely.
- Mash the garlic.
- Fry chopped onions and carrots in oil until golden brown. Add mushrooms. Cook the mass for another 7 - 8 minutes.
- Mix the roast with tomatoes, rice, garlic. Salt and pepper.
- Stuff the cabbage leaves. Roll them up tightly and fry in hot oil for a couple of minutes.
- Pour the cabbage rolls in a frying pan with a small amount of water with ketchup and simmer the treat over low heat for a little more than an hour.
Lean "Olivier"
Ingredients:
- boiled potatoes - 4 pcs.;
- boiled carrots - 3 pcs.;
- canned peas - 1 tbsp.;
- onion - 1 head;
- sour barrel cucumbers - 3 pcs.;
- pickled seaweed - 100 - 150 g;
- lean mayonnaise and salt.
Cooking:
- Chop all vegetables (both boiled, and fresh, and salted) into cubes.
- Drain liquid from peas. Cut olives into slices.
- Cut the cabbage short.
- Mix all.
Season the finished salad with salted lean mayonnaise.
The most simple but delicious dishes
If you don’t have time to fiddle with the design of the festive table for a long time, you should choose the simplest dishes. It remains only to take care of their interesting design, which can pleasantly surprise guests.
Baked Mackerel
Ingredients:
- fish carcasses - 2 large;
- garlic - 3 - 4 cloves;
- ground paprika - 1 pinch;
- provencal herbs - 2 tsp;
- oil and salt.
Cooking:
- Rinse and clean the fish. Leave a clean fillet on the halves with the skin. There should be no bones left in it.
- Crush garlic, mix with all seasonings and about 1/3 tbsp. any vegetable oil. Salt the mass. Grate the fish fillet with it and leave it in this form for about 1 hour.
- Place the prepared mackerel on a parchment-lined baking sheet, skin side up.
Bake the fish for 15 - 17 minutes at 220 degrees.
striped tomatoes
Ingredients:
- oblong-shaped cherry - 12 pcs.;
- garlic - to taste;
- cheese - 100 - 150 g;
- mayonnaise sauce and salt.
Cooking:
- Grate the cheese very finely and mix with mayonnaise, mashed garlic, and salt.
- In each cherry, make two transverse horizontal cuts. Fill them with stuffing.
- Stuff all the tomatoes in this way.
Serve the resulting "bees" as a cold appetizer.
Salad with ham and pickled onions
Ingredients:
- pork ham - 200 - 250 g;
- processed cheese - 2 pcs.;
- tomatoes - 3 pcs.;
- red pickled onion - 150 g;
- cream sauce and salt.
Cooking:
- Cheese, tomatoes and ham cut into medium cubes.
- Mix everything, add the onion, squeezed from the marinade.
- Top with sour cream sauce.
Salt to taste and serve immediately.
Interesting recipes for the holiday table
Experienced housewives can take on slightly complicated recipes. Their dishes are very interesting, unusual and tasty.
brawn with olives
Ingredients:
- chicken - 700 - 750 g;
- purified water - 2 l;
- green olives - ½ tbsp.;
- carrot - 100 g;
- garlic - 1 tooth;
- high-quality gelatin - 50 g;
- salt pepper.
Cooking:
- Chop the chicken with bones into pieces and send to cook for 90 minutes. At the very end of cooking, add the peeled carrots.
- Dilute gelatin in cold boiled water according to the instructions. After a quarter of an hour, dissolve it in a water bath and mix with 1.5 tbsp. chicken broth. Add minced garlic to it. Salt.
- Boiled carrots and olives cut into small cubes. Mix with them small pieces of boiled meat removed from the bones.
- Pour the filling components with gelatin broth.
- Send the mass into a beautiful shape and move in the coolness for the whole night.
Serve the finished brawn upside down, decorating with fresh herbs.
Mushroom zucchini roll
Ingredients:
- fresh zucchini - 2 pcs.;
- peeled champignons - 450 g;
- hard cheese - 150 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- flour - 1 tbsp.;
- sour cream - 1 tbsp.;
- onion - 1 head;
- garlic - 3 - 4 cloves;
- baking powder - 10 g;
- salt, pepper, oil.
Cooking:
- Peel the zucchini, grate coarsely and mix with crushed garlic. Salt.
- Add yolks, grated onion.
- Sift in flour with baking powder. Add whipped egg whites until stiff. Spice up
- Spread the resulting mixture on an oiled baking sheet.
- Send to the oven, preheated to 170 degrees. Bake for 35 - 45 minutes.
- Finely chop the mushrooms, fry until golden brown. Add sour cream and grated cheese.
- Coat the prepared squash cake with the mushroom mass. Roll it up.
Cut the resulting dish into pieces and decorate to your liking.
Chicken cupcakes
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 1 pc.;
- champignons - 5 pcs.;
- smoked sausage - 1 pc.;
- bell pepper - ½ pod;
- pickled cucumber - 1 pc.;
- olives - 9 pcs.;
- green onion - 2 feathers;
- cheese - 80 - 100 g;
- sour cream and butter - optional;
- salt, vegetable oil, spices.
Cooking:
- Finely chop the sausage, mushrooms, pepper. Fry until golden brown. You can use butter for this.
- Add cubes of pickled cucumber and olives, as well as chopped green onions.
- Mix products and season with sour cream.
- Thinly beat the chicken fillet. Sprinkle with salt and spices. Cut out pieces the size of cupcake liners.
- Cover oiled containers with thin slices of meat.
- Distribute the filling on top.
- Cover everything with cheese. You can spread a piece of butter on top for juiciness.
Bake hearty muffins for half an hour at 190 degrees.
What drinks to surprise guests
There will certainly be both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks on the adult table. Habitual store-bought bottles can be replaced with unusual hand-made cocktails.
Orange drink without alcohol
Ingredients:
- purified water - 2 l;
- juicy sweet orange - 2 pcs.;
- mint - 4 - 5 branches;
- sugar - 3 tbsp. l.;
- ice cubes.
Cooking:
- At the bottom of the decanter, lay the washed, dried mint, slightly mashed with your hands.
- Top with pitted orange slices and sugar.
- All also knead with a spoon.
- Fill carafe ½ full with ice.
- Mix condensed milk and juice. Another berry will do.
- Add vodka.
- Mix everything with a long coffee spoon.
Pour the liquor into a beautiful decanter or bottle. Cool down.
For a festive table, it is better to cook several interesting tasty dishes at once, but in small portions. In this case, each guest will be able to find among them something to their liking. Particular attention should be paid to snacks. There are never too many of them on the festive table.
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Festive table: chicken, meatballs, Olivier, salted red fish, tartlets with sprat salad, marinated tomatoes, sausage and potatoes
The menu for the festive table, recipes and the order of distribution of forces (so that the hostess is not tired), the shopping list (products for recipes) is at the very end. Some of the dishes can be prepared in advance, the rest we do just before the holiday. Everything is delicious, everyone will be full and satisfied.
Ingredients for a simple holiday table
Cooked for 4-6 people(adults), if more guests gather at the table, the norm of products can be increased.
This festive table is suitable for a small reception of guests on a birthday, March 8, February 23, for meeting with old friends and girlfriends, for other family holidays, when a narrow circle of relatives gathers, who do not need to be amazed by amazing culinary delights, but simply and delicious to feed. And not to fall after from fatigue, but to save strength for warm communication with pleasant table conversations.
By clicking on the name of the dishes, you will be taken to a detailed recipe for their preparation (basically, all recipes with step-by-step photos and calculation for the number of servings indicated below).
1. Meat dishes, side dishes and appetizer salads
- (12-16 pieces on a baking sheet);
- (from 2 kg of minced chicken, but it can be minced turkey or pork and beef, pork, 18-20 pieces). The recipe is given without eggs and onions, but you can.
- Raw smoked sausage and pork neck - sliced (0.5 kg each, depending on how much you like). You can add a slice of cheese (0.3-0.4 g) to the cut.
- (1 large chum salmon was salted);
- (2 cans of sprats, 8-10 tartlets);
- (with sausage, but it is possible with the same neck or with chicken);
- pickled or other delicious homemade preparations (, or) - 1 can or 1 kg of cucumbers for quick salting;
- Boiled potatoes - a large saucepan (approximately 4-5 potatoes no less than average size per 1 guest, have 3 kg of potatoes on hand, it will come in handy);
- Bread (0.5 loaves of black and loaf for 4-6 guests) or Uzbek - 2-3 pieces.
2. Sweet and tea
- Tangerines or seasonal fruits - 2-4 for each guest;
- from a purchased ready-made meringue with banana cream (you can use the usual one in butter and powdered sugar);
- Drinks: tea - a pack, coffee - a can, 1 can of compote or juice (3 liters), mineral water and alcoholic drinks - optional);
- Sugar - 0.5 kg or a pack of refined sugar.
Cutlery
- Tablecloth and paper napkins (2-3 for each guest). Some require napkins or towels on their knees so as not to get dirty (keep 1 per guest on hand, they will suddenly ask).
- Dinner and dessert plates for the cake, cups, glasses for compote or mineral water, wine glasses, forks, teaspoons - only 1 for the number of guests; table spoons - 1 in each dish that needs to be applied, a knife and a slicer for the cake.
Cooking order
In fact, you only have to cook 6 dishes (or 7, if you yourself want to pickle cucumbers in a bag, this is fast). Everything else is already ready (home-made canned food or bought in a store) and it needs to be cut or simply laid out.
In advance (the day before the holiday) you can cook:
- Red fish (clean and pickle);
- Cutlets;
- Cake (you can also do it on the day of the celebration, it’s quick. Or you can prepare the cream in advance, and collect the cake 1 hour before the arrival of the guests so that the oil has time to harden);
- Boil vegetables in uniform (Olivier) and eggs (Olivier and tartlets).
On the day of the holiday
- Thighs (salt, put on a baking sheet, grease with mayonnaise and take out when baked) = you can put in the oven for 1-1.5 hours before guests arrive;
- Boil potatoes - peel in advance and put on fire 1-1.5 hours before the guests arrive (simultaneously with the thighs);
- Cut the Olivier salad (you can not season it, but cover and refrigerate. And season with mayonnaise just before serving).
- Make a fish salad and set aside the fish tails for tartlets (also put in the fridge for now, and transfer to tartlets 10-15 minutes before the guests arrive).
If guests come, for example, for dinner (2 p.m.), then you need to start at 10-11. Make salads, peel potatoes, assemble a cake (if it was not prepared in advance).
We scoop up the cream with a small meringue and lay out a new layer of cake 
We spread the second layer of meringue on the first layer (smeared with cream) 
Quick cake Count's ruins from purchased meringues
Meringue crumbles on a plate. How delicious!
Thighs baked in mayonnaise
Approximately, in 1.5 hours, put the potatoes and chicken to cook. While everything is being cooked and baked, cut the sausage, meat, cheese and bread (cover everything with napkins or cling film), put the pickles, and towards the end, heat the cutlets. At the same time, you can cover the tablecloth and serve the table. 10-15 minutes:
- Arrange sprat salad on tartlets and stick a fish in them;
- Fill Olivier with mayonnaise;
- Put ready-made thighs on a dish, on another - warmed cutlets (you can also cold. Also tasty);
- Put the finished potatoes and pour it with the sauce from the thighs;
- Pour compote or juice into a jug or decanter;
- Remove napkins from cuts and bread, check whether all dishes have spoons for laying out, whether there are enough cutlery and napkins for everyone;
- Wash tangerines;
- Meet all the guests and eat!
Enjoy your meal! And have a great holiday!
Festive table with chicken, meatballs, Olivier, salted red fish, tartlets with sprat pate, marinated tomatoes, sausage and potatoes
If you need, here's how to prepare these recipes for 4-6 people (food remains, 8 will also fill up):
Holiday shopping list
Bread and pastries
- Black bread - 0.5-1 loaf;
- Long loaf - 0.5-1 pieces;
- Tartlets - 16 pieces (with a margin);
- Meringue (meringue cookies, small meringues) - 300-350 g;
Meat, fish, sausage
- Thighs - 12-16 pieces (per 1 baking sheet, depending on size);
- Minced chicken (or pork and beef, pork, minced turkey) - 1.8-2 kg;
- Red fish (chum salmon, coho salmon, pink salmon, or other good) - 1 large fish;
- Boiled sausage - 300-400 g in Olivier;
- Smoked sausage (0.5-1 stick), neck, bacon, brisket - optional (according to packaging);
Cheese, butter, eggs, mayonnaise
- Cheese - 1 piece (for slicing, optional);
- Chicken eggs - 10-16 pieces (in 2 salads and in minced meat, if you want);
- Mayonnaise - 1 large package (or 1 medium and 1 started at home);
- Butter - 360-400 g;
- Vegetable oil for frying - 0.5 bottles (for meatballs and salted fish);
canned food
- Sprats - 2 cans of 180-200 g;
- Green peas - 0.5-1 bank;
- Canned tomatoes-cucumbers-mushrooms-olives-olives - optional, if there are no home-made preparations, 1-2 cans.
Vegetables, fruits, nuts
- Potatoes - 3-5 kg (for garnish and in Olivier);
- Carrots - 1 medium (in Olivier);
- Pickled cucumber - 1 (in Olivier), but more can be - on the table;
- Fresh cucumber (for lightly salted) - 1 kg;
- Onion - 2-3 heads;
- Garlic - 1 head (less if there is a started head at home);
- Greens for 1 bunch: green onions (if not, we will manage with the available onions), dill, parsley and basil can be;
- Walnuts for the cake (peeled) - 100-200 g (not necessary, but tastier with them);
- Tangerines - 2 kg or apples, oranges, persimmons (if it doesn’t fall apart and you don’t crush it with other purchases) the number of pieces - according to the number of guests (+ 2-6 spare), 2 bunches of grapes;
- Bananas - 2-3 pieces (for the cake, but you can make cream without them);
- Lemon - 2 (for salted fish, for thighs and for tea or cognac);
Spices, semolina, salt-sugar, someone's coffee
- Dried basil - 1 sachet;
- Black or allspice ground pepper (whatever you like, optional) - a small bag;
- Semolina (you can use hercules, rice cereal or 2 slices of rolls) - 0.5 cups in minced meat, if you buy, then 0.5-1 kg;
- Salt;
- Sugar - 0.5 kg of granulated sugar (in a sugar bowl, for salted fish and 1 cup in cream, if there is no powdered sugar). For a sugar bowl, you can buy 1 pack of refined sugar, if you want.
- Powdered sugar for the cake - 1 cup (this is a small package of 200 g);
- Tea - 1 pack;
- Coffee - 1 can;
Drinks, napkins
- Juice (if there is no homemade compote) - 3 liters;
- Mineral water - 2 bottles of 1.5 liters;
- Wine, other spirits - at your discretion;
- Napkins - packaging;
- Toilet paper - packaging (you can + a roll of paper towels, it is convenient to wipe your hands when preparing);
- Paper tablecloth (if there is no ordinary house).
Culinary community Li.Ru -
Hot dishes for birthday
The most popular holiday dish in our area, the recipes of which are known to many housewives, is chicken with potatoes in the oven. I share a good and simple recipe for cooking chicken with potatoes with a photo.
Hashbrown is a popular American potato dish that is very simple and easy to prepare. We need potatoes, butter and onions. And we will cook in the oven and on the stove. Go!
A popular and very tasty dish of baked meat with potatoes under a beautiful melted cheese crust. Meat in French with potatoes - this is something you should definitely try!
For you - a recipe for cutlets in Kiev with a photo. Kiev cutlets made from beaten chicken fillet wrapped around a piece of butter, fried in boiling oil. I'll tell you how to cook!
The name of this recipe is somewhat arbitrary - French chops are the most common chops, only baked with cheese. Nothing to do with French cuisine. But most importantly, it's delicious!
For me, there is nothing tastier and more satisfying than a well-cooked meatloaf. Meatloaf is a real celebration of life for lovers of meat and meat products. Sharing a proven recipe! :)
Beef goulash is a classic Hungarian dish. For me, this is both soup and the second. You can not do without the popular Hungarian paprika. You will also need potatoes, bell peppers, onions and spices.
Chicken tabaka is a popular Georgian dish. It is prepared simply and quite quickly. Fry the chicken with coriander and cumin. Two or three chickens will be enough for a family. You will need a hammer and mortar.
Fragrant, juicy potatoes in cream in the oven can be cooked in portioned pots or a large heat-resistant form - choose the dishes yourself, and it will turn out delicious anyway, I promise!
Another “exotic” poultry and fruit dish is for those who like unusual culinary solutions. The original recipe for chicken breast with pear is also relevant for those who follow the figure!
Scientists call potatoes "a botanical masterpiece." This root crop is one of the most valuable on earth. There are simply countless options for its preparation, one of them is potato casserole with bacon.
Another unusual fruit and meat dish. The recipe for beef with pear is perfect for a romantic dinner for two or a solemn family feast.
Only three ingredients, but what a colorful and tasty dish we get! You can please your family with an unusual dinner, feel free to put the boats on the festive table. Sharing the recipe!
I came across an excellent piece of beef just now. It was a pity to cut such meat into pieces. I decided to cook beef, baked in a piece. The beef came out tender, melting, and the spices were baked crispy.
Chicken with apples is delicious, and chicken with apples and prunes is even tastier! It is easy to prepare and the dish turns out amazing - try it! :)
Chicken fillet and bell pepper make a delicious and very beautiful roll. It can be served both as a hot dish, and cut into a snack or used in the preparation of sandwiches.
Legs with apples will amaze you with a combination of chicken and sour apples flavored with onions. I got this recipe from a friend, and she came up with this dish when she couldn't buy duck.
Meat in French with tomatoes is a great festive dish for dinner with friends or family members. The meat is very juicy and tender, and the dish is fragrant and appetizing.
To your attention - a simple, but very effective recipe for pork in the oven. With this recipe, you can easily prepare a hot dish that can be safely put even on the festive table.
Tender beef with mushrooms and sour cream served with rice or noodles. The recipe was invented by Count Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov in 1890 in St. Petersburg.
A properly cooked piece of meat is the best that can be served on the table. Beef medallion prepared according to this recipe is a dish of just such a category.
Duck with apples is a classic New Year and Christmas dish in many European countries, especially in Germany and Austria. If you do not know what to cook for the new year - try this!
Pork zrazy is a great way to cook pork zrazy. The dish fits perfectly into the harmony of a festive feast - for example, in honor of the New Year. Try it - everyone will be delighted! :)
Turkey Shank with Garlic and Rosemary is a trivial dish, but it's worth making it once and you'll be making it all the time.
Château potatoes are a very popular side dish of potatoes for meat or fish in France. A wonderful alternative to boring mashed potatoes and fried potatoes :)
Baked Potato with Avocado Sauce is an insanely easy dish for vegetarians. Potatoes are very appetizing and fragrant, and avocado sauce makes the taste more varied. Try it!
Duck baked with oranges is a very festive and solemn dish that I usually cook for the New Year or Christmas. The hostess cooks, the host cuts and puts each on a plate ... ah!
Pork loin - the meat is quite dry, and it is not easy to cook it deliciously. I share a very successful recipe - pork loin on the bone with carrots. A couple of tricks - and the meat is very juicy.
The recipe for pork with mushrooms and cheese is a wonderful dish for the New Year's table. Festive serving, tender and juicy meat, magnificent spicy aroma - the dish meets all quality criteria.
Chicken baked with pineapples is an easy-to-prepare, but very tasty dish that can be prepared for a holiday - New Year or birthday. Effective, unusual and original.
French-style spicy potatoes are potatoes cooked in a very original way, which will serve as a great side dish for any meat, fish or vegetable dish.
Recipe for chicken with tomatoes, sweet peppers and olives in white wine. French cuisine.
Chicken with Garlic and Thyme is another simple yet very effective way to bake delicious chicken in the oven. The garlic and thyme marinade makes the chicken very tender and flavorful.
Armenian-style stuffed eggplant is my signature dish, which was taught to me by a professional Armenian chef. Eggplants turn out just excellent - you will lick your fingers!
Chicken with peanuts is somewhat unusual for a Slavic person, but a very tasty dish of Chinese traditional cuisine. Properly prepared, it is simply doomed to success. Preparing is very easy!
"Meat in French" minced chicken
The recipe for a popular meat dish using minced chicken. In fact, we cook the same meat in French, but instead of chops, we use minced chicken. Delicious!
Pork stuffed with dried apricots and onions is a very unusual and original meat dish, which is pork chops with very juicy and tasty minced meat. Surprise your eaters!
If you do not know how to cook beef, I recommend paying attention to this recipe. Beef chops with garlic are very soft, tender, with a pleasant garlic flavor and aroma. Try it!
Transylvanian puff cabbage is a very tasty Romanian national dish, somewhat reminiscent of lazy cabbage rolls. Delicious dish made from simple and affordable ingredients.
Rooster in wine is a gourmet French dish that you can cook in your home kitchen. As for me, the dish has every right to be called festive - it looks solemn and very tasty.
Escalopes are boneless, lean cuts of meat that are pan fried without breading. It is best to use pork tenderloin. Escalope is prepared from the kidney part, where the meat is especially soft and tender.
If you don’t know what to cook for the New Year, I recommend trying chicken breasts baked in spices. This is a fairly simple to prepare, but very festive and worthy hot dish.
An easy chops recipe for fried pork lovers. Step by step cooking with photos.
Are you looking for something original for a side dish or for a snack? Then meet - balls of thread. This chicken dish will surprise you not only with its appearance, but also with its taste.
I tell you how to cook a classic schnitzel - a thin pork chop, which is rolled in batter and fried in oil. A wonderful men's lunch or dinner - simple and satisfying.
Breaded pork is a very unusual way of cooking the most trivial pork meat. Thanks to the original breading, the taste of pork is very original and unexpected.
Kefir-marinated chicken with potatoes is a great option for a fairly quick and simple dinner or lunch with simple ingredients. No frills, everything is very simple, but delicious.
Lavangi is a delicious chicken dish that is traditionally prepared in the southern regions of Azerbaijan. Sharing cooking secrets!
Chicken in almond crust is another great way to prepare everyone's favorite chicken meat. The almond crust gives the chicken a whole new flavor - try it, you won't regret it!
I have not cooked such a bright, colorful and tasty dish as stuffed peppers and tomatoes for a long time. The ingredients are simple, but the dish is a real masterpiece both visually and in taste :)
Stuffed baked potatoes are a chic side dish for a meat dish. A very satisfying, attractive and beautiful side dish for some (for example, for vegetarians) can become a separate serious dish!
Mackerel with bell pepper is the perfect combination and a great flavor combination. Before cooking mackerel, remember this instruction and you will get an excellent dish!
Ragu is a great solution for those who like to cook dishes in earthenware. Meet a very simple recipe for a stew with meat and green beans in a pot.
Zucchini and meat go just great, but I don’t like large pieces of meat with zucchini, so I mix this vegetable with minced meat. It turns out a very juicy and tender casserole.
Fried tomatoes are one of my favorite snacks for both everyday and festive tables. Prepared in two counts, but it turns out very tasty and beautiful.
I discovered another interesting way to cook pork meat - pork with bell pepper. It turns out a very juicy, fragrant and tender dish.
Laying a festive table is a rather expensive business. Let's talk about various options for budget, hearty and delicious dishes.
To begin with, we choose the practice of planning. We study the products in stock, try to use them in festive dishes. We write a list of dishes with ingredients and a list to buy in the store.
We offer examples of options for delicious and inexpensive dishes with a brief description.
Salads, appetizers
Envelopes / tubules with cheese and mushrooms. We wrap fried mushrooms with grated cheese in thin pita bread or pancakes, heat them in a pan with butter on both sides so that the cheese melts. Can be served both hot and cold.
Salad with mushrooms. Ingredients: boiled red beans -100 gr., mushrooms fried in butter - 100 gr., 2 boiled eggs, garlic, salt, sour cream or mayonnaise. Mix everything.
Herring under a Fur Coat. Ingredients: 0.5 onions, 1 herring, boiled grated potatoes, grated carrots, eggs, beets, mayonnaise or sour cream)
Sandwiches with cheese clouds. Grate 2 processed cheeses like "Hope", "City", 2 eggs, grate garlic, sour cream or mayonnaise, mix. Put the resulting cheese cloud on bread, you can add cucumbers and sprats.
Sauerkraut.
Salad in a hurry. Mix 1 jar of canned green peas, 0.5 finely chopped onions with sour cream or mayonnaise, plus salt and pepper to taste. It turns out simple and quite tasty.
Sharp carrot. These are variations on the theme of “Korean-style carrots”. Three carrots on a grater with garlic and ground black pepper, coriander, and other spicy hot spices, season with sour cream or vegetable oil.
Radish with carrots. Three grated radishes with carrots, salt and season with sour cream.
Avocado with cheese and garlic. Three grated 1-2 medium avocados, 150 gr. cheese, 2-3 cloves of garlic, salt, season with sour cream or mayonnaise.
Available cutting options: cheese, sausage, cucumbers, tomatoes, sweet peppers.
Pancakes with various "economical" fillings. We wrap various fillings in thin pancakes: finely chopped or grated boiled eggs, rice with fried onions; liver with onions and eggs; mashed potatoes with mushrooms and fried onions; cheese with mushrooms; sliced boiled sausage with mushrooms and cheese.
Salad with biscuits "Fish". Lay out in layers: “fish” cookies, coat with mayonnaise, grated smoked cheese (“Sausage”), finely chopped chicken breast with green onions, 3 finely grated eggs, a layer of mayonnaise. It is better to let it brew in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours so that the cookies are “soaked”.
Salad with fresh vegetables and herbs:
Option 1: young cabbage, cucumber, dill, green onion, sour cream, salt.
Option 2: cucumber, radish, 2 finely chopped eggs, lots of herbs, salt, sour cream.
Option 3: cucumber, tomato, sweet pepper, cheese, onion, herbs, salt, sour cream.
Option 4: chicken breast or ham, cheese, bell peppers, tomatoes, 2 boiled eggs, salt, ground pepper, sour cream or mayonnaise.
Tomatoes with cheese and garlic. Cut the tomatoes into rings, put grated cheese with garlic and mayonnaise on top.
Liver plates. We make a liver pate: 0.5 kg of boiled or fried liver, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 0.5 packs of plums. oils, salt and spices to taste. Scroll the liver with vegetables in a meat grinder, mix everything. Then put on "wheat plates", tartlets or bread.
Salo. Salo can be used both as a cut, and make a kind of snack by chopping it together with garlic and pepper in a meat grinder. Then spread this mixture on bread. It turns out especially tasty if such sandwiches are slightly warmed over a fire on a grate.
It is more economical when using an abundance of seasonal ingredients: in the presence of freshly picked or canned, frozen mushrooms, we cook dishes with them, in the season of an abundance of fresh vegetables, we use them to the maximum, etc.
hotter
Chicken breast fritters. Finely chop the raw chicken breast, 1 onion, salt, pepper, mix with mayonnaise and fry in a pan.
Chicken cutlets. We scroll the chicken breast, add a small piece of bacon or pork, 2 eggs, salt, pepper, a little milk, bread or potatoes. Mix thoroughly and fry.
Liver pancakes. Grind 0.5 kg of chicken liver in a meat grinder or blender, 1-2 eggs, 2 tbsp. spoons of milk, onion, 100-200 gr. flour. Mix thoroughly until thick sour cream and spread the pancakes on a preheated pan.
Fish in sauce. Ingredients: 3 large pollock, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 100 gr. milk, 2 tbsp. spoons of sour cream, salt, pepper. Put the fish in a hot pan, fry on both sides, add chopped carrots and onions, simmer for 5 minutes, add milk, sour cream, seasoning, simmer for another 5-10 minutes.
Fried potatoes with onions.
Fried mushrooms with onions and sour cream.
Fish cutlets.
Boiled rice with fried mushrooms. Separately, cook the rice and fry the mushrooms with onions, then mix or spread the mushrooms on top of the rice.
Chicken wings baked in the oven. A few hours before baking, soak chicken wings in sauce: sour cream or mayonnaise, salt, pepper, spicy seasoning. Then spread on a baking sheet and bake until crispy.
Potato casserole. We wrap it in thin pita bread, laying it out in layers: mashed potatoes, minced meat or stew, fried onions, cheese, sour cream.
Warm meat salad. Fry separately: finely chopped chicken breast, a little beef and vegetables: eggplant, zucchini, onions. We spread it on a plate, serve it short.
Potato pancakes with sour cream and mushrooms.
Zucchini pancakes with sauce(mayonnaise, sour cream and garlic)
For tea
Homemade cakes are much cheaper and more natural than purchased ones.
Biscuit pie with apples. Beat 5-6 eggs and 150-200 gr. sugar, add 100 gr. flour, the dough should be like liquid sour cream. Cut 2 medium apples into a baking dish, spread the dough and bake for 30 minutes.
Pie based cake. Based on this cake, you can make a cake. We cut the cake into several cakes, coat with cream, add soaked dried fruits, marmalade, berries, pour chocolate icing.
Pancakes or thin pancakes with jam, condensed milk, chocolate
Homemade cookies and waffles
Ice cream with jam or sliced bananas
Marshmallow and cookies
Cheesecakes for tea with jam and sour cream
Cake from cottage cheese. Lay out in layers: cookies like "Jubilee", "Sugar", a layer of cottage cheese with sour cream, a layer of thinly sliced marmalade, a layer of cookies, a layer of cottage cheese with sour cream, a layer of marmalade, cookies, cottage cheese and pour chocolate icing.
For chocolate icing, melt 2 tsp in 100g of milk. cocoa powder, 4-5 cloves of dark chocolate, 1-2 tablespoons of sugar.
Fruits
The use of exotic fruits significantly increases the cost of the festive table, you can use more affordable fruits: apples, pears, bananas, oranges. In season - watermelon, melon.
After the holiday
It happens that many products remain after the holiday. So, from vegetable and sausage cuts, you can cook soup-hodgepodge, make a kind of gravy for a side dish, and cook a casserole from the remaining side dish and hot. If there are a lot of products left after the celebration, then some can be frozen in the refrigerator, for example, chicken, meatballs, sausage, pancakes and cheesecakes, fish and many others. So they will remain fresh and significantly reduce the time for cooking in the future, it will be enough just to get them out and warm them up.
Complete the list. What options for delicious and inexpensive dishes do you prepare for the holiday?
